Speaker Heath Kenny
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Starting from the ground up and with more than 18 years of experience in the animation biz, Heath is a creative executive with an extensive knowledge of animation production and the dark arts of developing a project from mind vomit into your next potential hit. After escaping the island of New Zealand, and a brief but industrious stop in the UK (he served as Animation Director on the Gorillaz music video "Dirty Harry," for example), Heath jumped ship to the land of stinky cheese and stripy tops, a.k.a. France. He took on the role of Co-Director for the second season of Cartoon Network's Robotboy. After spending eight years in France, Heath was promoted to VP of Creative Development at Gaumont Animation. He now draws on all his industry experience to provide a never-ending supply of creative solutions to even the stickiest of co-production needs. Providing a link between France and the rest of the world with clients like DreamWorks, Disney, France Télévisions, Tf1, RAI and Teletoon Canada―and now Netflix―he continually proves that a French Kiwi is indeed a very rare bird.
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